Wednesday, December 19, 2007

Florida has SLAVES...

From The Independent UK via truthout.org:

Slave Labor That Shames America

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/121907H.shtml

Leonard Doyle, reporting for The Independent UK, writes: "Three Florida fruit-pickers, held captive and brutalised by their employer for more than a year, finally broke free of their bonds by punching their way through the ventilator hatch of the van in which they were imprisoned. Once outside, they dashed for freedom. When they found sanctuary one recent Sunday morning, all bore the marks of heavy beatings to the head and body. One of the pickers had a nasty, untreated knife wound on his arm. Police would learn later that another man had his hands chained behind his back every night to prevent him escaping, leaving his wrists swollen."